Testifying before Congress on Wednesday, Donald Trump Jr. cited attorney-client privilege and refused to discuss a phone call he had with his father about how to handle the fallout from his June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer. He told the House Intelligence Committee that a lawyer was in the room during the call. Adam Schiff, the top … Read More
Whistleblower Says Flynn Was Excited For Russia Plans To Build Nuclear Plants In Mideast
Full letter below: The Democrats are now asking Gowdy to sign off on subpoenas for various White House officials, associates of Flynn’s and others involved in the nuclear project. “If you choose to continue blocking our Committee’s investigation of General Flynn and allowing the White House to defy our bipartisan requests, the Oversight Committee will be faced with allegations of … Read More
Watch This Space
It’s probably nothing but….. #BREAKING: FBI confirms there is currently court authorized law enforcement activity in the DC region involving state and federal agencies. No further information is being released at this time. The #FBI plans to release more information later this afternoon. — WUSA9 (@wusa9) December 6, 2017 UPDATE: It’s gang-related.
The Abramson Theiory
I’ve been following, and also quoting, Seth Abramson, a University of New Hampshire professor — also a lawyer and criminal defense attorney — and his prolific (arguably TOO prolific) tweets about Trump and the Russian Collusion scandal. The Washington Post did an expose on Abramson, and his sometimes sensible, sometimes not, theory: As Seth Abramson tells it, Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with … Read More
Corrections And Updates And Backtracks To Last Week’s Bombshells
As I posted here last week, Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition last December. Flynn is the fourth Trump associate to be charged in Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. As I also posted, Flynn promised “full cooperation” with Mueller’s investigation and … Read More
Flynn Pleads Guilty* In Trump-Russia “Witchhunt”
* Well, he’s about to plead guilty… 10:30 am today. Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed court documents Friday indicating that he was bringing charges against former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn for lying to FBI agents about his Russian contacts. The information charges Flynn with one count of making a false statement. Here is the court filing – Seth Abramson … Read More
The 8th Man In The June 2016 Trump Tower Meeting Was A Russian Money Launderer
Daily Beast gots it: An accused money launderer representing a Kremlin-friendly oligarch has been reportedly identified as the eighth person at a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. last June. Irakly Kaveladze was a guest of Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya when she visited Trump and other campaign members in Trump Tower last year, Trump’s lawyer told CNN. The meeting was proposed by billionaire Russian real-estate developer Aras Agalarov. … Read More
Don Trump Jr And Wikileaks
On Oct. 14, 2016, soon-to-be-Vice President Pence took to Fox News and flat-out denied that the Trump campaign was “in cahoots” with WikiLeaks. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” Pence said. Turns out Pence’s answer is pretty far from the truth. Below is a timeline breaking it all down: Sept. 20: WikiLeaks sends its first direct messages to Trump Jr., sharing … Read More
No Pee Tape, BUT….
Breaking from NBC: WASHINGTON — After a business meeting before the Miss Universe Pageant in 2013, a Russian participant offered to “send five women” to Donald Trump’s hotel room in Moscow, his longtime bodyguard told Congress this week, according to three sources who were present for the interview. Two of the sources said the bodyguard, Keith Schiller, viewed the offer … Read More
Carter Page, The Goof, Testifies
Carter Page is sort of the comic relief of the Trump-Russia scandal. He goes on TV waaaay too much, and gets so evasive that he just looks terrible. It is not helped by a comical silly smile he plasters on his face. Yesterday, he gave testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. And it was the usual odd rambling. Not so much … Read More
Deep Dive Into Papadapolous Timeline
There is so much more to the Papadopolous timeline that the media is not reporting (bolded items have not been reported yet)
Attorney General Sessions Caught In Yet Another Lie
Jeff Sessions is either the most forgetful man on the planet, or the most deceitful. Either way, he’s not fit to be the attorney general. Standing before reporters in February, President Trump said unequivocally that he knew of nobody from his campaign who was in contact with Russians during the election. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has told the Senate the same … Read More
Seven Points Which Make The Beginnings Of A Trump-Russia Collusion Case
1) Russia stole Democratic emails. US intelligence agencies have confirmed that emails from the Democratic National Committee and from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta were stolen by Russian hackers. The emails were ultimately released in a smartly sequenced way to maximize damage to Hillary Clinton. 2) At least one Trump adviser knew of the theft in advance, and lied about it. Shortly after the emails were … Read More
The Pushback On Mueller Began A Week Before The Indictments
Fox News really is now the Trump network. It is not even the GOP network. Just Trump. They have been questioning Mueller’s credibility. Vox explains the evolution: To put it bluntly: As Mueller brings charges against top Trump officials, Fox News is trying to plant doubt in its viewers’ minds. We analyzed the past week of Fox News transcripts, measuring … Read More
Mueller Time
Well, life has been busy. I wasn’t able to blog about yesterday’s big news: the indictments of Paul Manafort and his assistant Richard Gates — as well as the indictment and guilty plea of George Papadopolous. The talking heads are correct — it is the Papadopolous news that should scare the White House since it goes to collusion. On the … Read More